40 Years' Gatherin's

Kansas City, MO: The Lowell Press, 1977. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by author on half-title page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. [xv], 301. Tan cloth with gilt titling, pictorial jacket. Map endpapers. Includes two sections of black and white photographic plates. Introduction by Dean Krakel of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, who writes of this rancher from Montana's Crazy Mountains, "Spike carries the presence of the West better than anyone I have ever met." Tipped-in remembrance of Van Cleve by Addison Bragg from the Billings Gazette, April 25, 1982 (Van Cleve passed away on the 16th of that month). Previous owner's address sticker (truncated) on front free endpaper. Damp-staining to the bottom of two-thirds of the pages. Moderate chipping and tears to jacket. (Inventory #: 40168)